FAITH CAPSULE: Be repaired for God to occupy.
2 Chronicles 29:1-11
To gain and retain the presence of God is to open and be cleaned up for God to occupy, and such will live life for the glory of God.
The action to open the temple by King Hezekiah depicts what it means for all to be opened for God to occupy.
2Chronicles 29:1-3 records, “Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.”
When Hezekiah became king, the first and foremost he did was to open and repair the temple of God.
The opening and reparation of the temple of God counted for him as right doing.
Hezekiah was right in the sight of the Lord.
An open and repaired house of God is prepared and well-kept for the occupation of the presence of God.
Are you an acclaimed believer?
Are you opened, repaired, and prepared for God to occupy you?
Or, are you yet to be opened but open-able for God to gain entrance into your life?
Revelation 3:20 records what Jesus will do when you are open for Him to occupy your life, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.” (Revelation 3:20)
What is holding you not to open for God into your life?
Hezekiah opened the door and called for reparation.
Prayerfully, with desire, open up for the Lord to occupy your life.
Make it a priority to study and learn that you are the temple of God and need to be opened for God to have a place in your life.
Many assume but are not open for God and have no space, lack reparation, and are not ready for God.
Some are open for religious purposes.
Are you open to the religious purpose or for reality with Christ?
Hezekiah did not open up to play religion; he brought the qualified to work inside the temple.
2 Chronicles 29:5, “And he said to them: Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the rubbish from the holy place.”
Are you open to the entrance of God into your life?
If you are yet to open for Jesus to occupy you, get to know that it is time to have the door open so He can come into you, to sanctify you by His Word.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to become open that He will occupy your life.